8 years ago
The National Institutes of Health is awarding a Kansas State University-led team of psychological sciences researchers with a prestigious five-year, $10.6 million Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence, or COBRE, grant. It is the largest grant in the history of the psychological sciences department. The team — which also includes collaborators from Wichita State University and the ...

8 years ago
Saline County Commissioners were excited to hear that the Tri-Rivers Fair Board has been working to bring helicopter rides to the fair on August 10 th and 11 th . A brochure promotes that DWTA Helicopters could offer a 3½-4 minute flight over the Tri-Rivers Fair for $40/person. There would be no age limit and the ...

8 years ago
Saline County Commissioners gave their permission to “start the process” to hire an individual to serve as both an assistant administrator and finance director. The Commission accepted an Archer classification to place this new position at grade 24 of the county’s salary scale, with a salary ranging from $56,908-$87,000/year. Commissioner Robert Vidricksen said he was “excited ...

8 years ago
Both Kansas Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran have voted in favor of having the Senate debate health care legislation. The two Republicans were on the same side Tuesday even though they've taken different stances on a proposal from GOP leaders for overhauling health care. Roberts has backed the measure, although he acknowledged in an interview last ...

8 years ago
ederal judge says Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has demonstrated a pattern of misleading the court about the facts and record in a voting rights case. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson refused Tuesday to reconsider a $1,000 fine and order requiring Kobach to submit to a deposition by the American Civil Liberties Union. Kobach's spokeswoman says ...

8 years ago
A Kansas hunting guide pleaded guilty and was sentenced Tuesday for routinely violating state and federal hunting laws while taking clients on $300-a-day hunting trips. According to U.S. Attorney Tom Beall, 26-year-old Jerad Stroot of Colwich, an employee of Eagle Head Outfitters, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the Lacy Act. In his ...

8 years ago
Tips from the public helped Salina Police identify a man who they believe stole a purse. Tuesday morning police released a couple of security camera images of a white male who grabbed a woman's purse as she shopped inside the Dillons grocery store located at 1201 W. Crawford. Tips from the public prompted an arrest Tuesday afternoon. Police ...

8 years ago
A formula that Kansas lawmakers have used to determine which state workers would get raises this year has sparked confusion and resentment among employees. State lawmakers approved a budget in June that gives some employees their first pay raise in several years. The method leaves out employees who have received raises under separate contracts and divides the ...

8 years ago
Guards at a Kansas prison housing some of the most dangerous criminals say there were two previously unreported disturbances during which inmates took control of the yard for hours before an third uprising that was disclosed last month. Two corrections officers and a person with access to emergency logs, who spoke to AP on condition of ...

8 years ago
Authorities say a Catholic priest charged in Kansas with child sex crimes has been arrested in Maryland. The Wyandotte County, Kansas, prosecutor's office announced Tuesday that the Rev. Scott Kallal was charged Friday with two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. Montgomery County, Maryland, Police Capt. Paul Starks says the 35-year-old was arrested Monday ...

8 years ago
Authorities say a man has died after he was found in a Kansas apartment where a fire was intentionally set. KSNT-TV reports that 37-year-old Derrick Anthony Williams was found Monday while crews were putting out the fire in the ground floor apartment in Junction City. The fire department said in a news release that Williams was ...